I'm consistently amazed and fascinated by the human body. I mean, sure, animals in general - nature in general - but really, my experience of my body is a source of endless "wow!" moments. For instance, just now, I was working hard at my computer. Unbeknownst to me, my dog had taken up residence directly behind me, sleeping soundly. I had to get up to grab my wallet to make yet another painful business purchase. Perhaps lost in thought, I just stood up as I've done countless times, with the intent to head towards the kitchen.
I moved a little too fast, apparently, because the dog couldn't move. For the next five or six seconds my body did incredible things. It DID NOT FALL, amazingly. I engaged in a completely unconscious dance of limbs, readjusting joint angles, shifting weight this way and that and - I noticed - not breathing much. There was no thought in this. If I had stopped to think, I surely would have fallen. As it is, I have no idea how I didn't. I do know that my dog thinks he's in deep trouble, my slippers somehow ended up on the other side of the room, and I STILL had to make the painful business purchase.
Only now with the added fun of adrenaline.
It occurs to me that this is why watching basketball highlight reels really and truly brings me to tears sometimes. It's why I like to watch basketball and other fast moving sports in the first place. It's why I find myself staring at pregnant bellies. It's why I am floored every year when the cold hard sticks on my trees and bushes burst to luxuriant life. Not the adrenaline part, but the utter amazement I experience every time I am in the presence of this beautiful world and the things in it. Just to see how the life in this world continues, to see how it adapts to changing circumstances, to engage with it all...
This blog has turned into chiefly a personal development blog. It's mostly a journal for myself and myself only, but sometimes has bits of information of interest to others - thus I've made it public. I do share random weirdness I find on the web, reflect on features of our shared existence, and so on.
Mostly, you'll find me active on my Chinese medicine site, Deepest Health which is undergoing a major overhaul as of November 2010. Honestly, most of my time goes into my multi-disciplinary medical clinic, Watershed Community Wellness. So check that out, too.
This blog has turned into chiefly a personal development blog. It's mostly a journal for myself and myself only, but sometimes has bits of information of interest to others - thus I've made it public. I do share random weirdness I find on the web, reflect on features of our shared existence, and so on.